PRIOR to the 2011 general elections, the PPP/C government was criticised as a “demoractic dictatorship”. Now we find the AFC, aligned with APNU, using a one-seat parliamentary majority to do exactly the same thing. What wisdom can explain their rejection of the national budget a second time, and crafting their own bill for President Ramotar to sign without his party’s input? Any surprise when he does not assent to it and we are back to basics?
What explains this new form of opposition dictatorship, empowering ancient, discredited relics to echo the black-based PNC’s rightful demands, but this time sanctioned by the AFC?
Is Mr Kwayana now empowered to represent the AFC as well?
Something cannot be right in an AFC co-joined zygotic relationship with APNU to approve a parliamentary bill without even demanding anything in return from APNU.
Those who have historically demanded that the PPP/C share power with them are only operating with a kind of putrid logic that does Guyana no good.
In fact, all who are familiar with Mr Eusi Kwayana’s historical and incessant race-based demands for sharing political power can hardly forget his demand that Guyana be partitioned.
Now putting a new spin to his mission, he has become infatuated with the preamble of the Guyana Constitution as a means to achieve his goals.

With the AFC now being used as APNU’s whip against the PPP/C government, it is easy to see why Mr Kwayana smells victory in his grand design. He can hardly now deny that his true motives are to get political power “by any means necessary”. With constant opposition recalibrations for power sharing, would any magnification of the constitution’s preamble really make any difference whatsoever?
No kind of putrid concoction — where opposition parties demand that President Ramotar consult with APNU to share power a la Kwayana’s dictum, but are nullified by their equal responsibility to engage the constitutionally empowered PPP/C’s input in any such bill — can be reflective of opposition sanity, much less fairness. Theirs can only be a substitutive form of APNU-inspired democratic dictatorship, which the 2011 elections seemingly rejected.
In our new political reality, rumblings for demonstrably easing the political stalemate, in the meantime, can only be a bold, commendable step. Otherwise such a one-seat majority only gives rise to more fears — a new kind of renewed future PNC dictatorship, which cannot be desirable at any cost.
What Mr Kwayana would like in his power-sharing recipe is “some for you and some for me”.
Obviously, there would be no more elections in Guyana, determined a priority by political power being shared equally by race. This would mean that there would be no individual requirement for the painful sacrifices to become a teacher, businessman, doctor, lawyer, tradesman, or any other profession. All that needs to be done is print 50/50 certificates and distribute those to blacks and Indians alone.
Any such equal consideration for our native Amerindians,
Chinese, douglas, santantones, mulattoes, and what’s left of the
Portuguese still in Guyana?
Let the evidence speak for itself, whether Mr. Kwayana and his team have consistently championed a similar equality for them like the PPP/C promotes for Amerindians and all other race groups.
Only Mr Kwayana et al can best defend our Kwayanas. Such types of power sharing would inevitably garbage or ignore merit, skills and abilities, if the power-sharing advocates have their way.

So, one hoe, one cutlass, one pen, one computer, one pig, one coconut, one child or one pair of shoes for all six races would be automatic. No more need for such AFC political parties, whereby Indians would vote an alternative route to safeguard their security interests.
What is even more amazing is how the one-seat opposition majoritarian focus is fixated only on the national treasury. How can the AFC defile and repudiate its manifesto’s promises to implement an “ethnic impact” policy for those who voted for that party? Surely, the AFC cannot be pledged to a similar Kwayana-like mission to empower APNU when they received some thirty thousand Indian crossover votes following a Moses-inspired quest to our new promised land of a bigger mess?
For our Kwayanas who are allied with APNU to share power, one would have expected a demonstrative redistribution of labour, i.e its core black supporters would also become involved in cutting sugar cane, more involved in farming, growing rice, and becoming emancipated from white collar jobs. Indians would be ensured their fair share in the armed forces and civil service, which is all legislated and financed by taxpayers’ money. Then we can become more entitled to equally share the “available goods”.
Sharing power cannot be limited only to scrambling for money from the national treasury, as much as all have a right to it.
Currently, no black leader (or Indian for that matter) champions sharing ethnic power in the armed forces. Afrocentric blacks like Mr. Kwayana, Dr David Hinds, Mr Tacuma Ogunseye, Mr Abu Bakr, Mr Barrington Braithwaite etc all habitually shy away from this topic like they shy away from championing decentralisation.
If Guyana is to progress as a united, harmonious, progressive country, it must find a way that is less threatening or that constantly lends to bickering. We must start somewhere. So Indians want ethnic balancing of the armed forces and supposedly have a disdain about joining? All the AFC has to do is initiate a bill with their majority to recruit Indians. Let’s see who refuses to support, oppose or sabotage it.
The AFC may still hold the balance to make a difference.